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Elements and Performance Criteria

Identify specifications for cuts
- Determine specifications for cuts using cut descriptions according to regulatory standards, customer specifications and workplace requirements
Bone middle
Identify and remove defects
- Identify, remove and report defects according to government regulations and workplace standards
- Report persistent defects to supervisor in accordance with work instructions

Range Statement

Performance Evidence

The candidate must remove primal cuts from the trunk of a small stock carcase.

The candidate must:

prepare and operate equipment according to workplace requirements

check and correct where necessary, the accuracy of cutting lines

bone the middle according to the work instructions and specifications, and at production speed

identify contamination or abnormalities and handle according to workplace and regulatory requirements

apply communication skills relevant to work instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)

Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must demonstrate a factual, technical, procedural and theoretical knowledge of:

structure of the carcase and primal cutting lines

procedure for removal of all primals to desired specifications

sources of contamination and cross-contamination and the ways of minimising it

importance of and technique required to maximise yield from a carcase

work instructions and dropped meat procedures

relevant regulatory requirements

carcase defects and appropriate corrective actions.